this wekeend my local track opens,im gonna take out the rs and run it at 10-12 psi to see just how well the bone stock 3.1 performs under boost.
and when i say stock i mean this is a bone stock 100,000 mile motor.
so this will give u guys that are wantng to just add a simple turbo setup to ur stock motors will know about what it should do.
depending on how well the motor runs,have a minor ignition problem that needs to be sorted out, i may finnaly attempt to run the nitrous (35/50 shot) as well

the only things not stock would be the ported manifold, trans/4k stall converter and the 4:10 rear gears,and an open downpipe
should be looking for mid 13's to low 14's or atleast it feels like it,but its been so long since the good motor was in the car it may just feel that fast lol

 

cool, hopefuly this answers alot of questions.

 

Englishtown?

 

Dave, let me know what day your headed over there, as I'll more than likely swing by to check it out. Also, I can video it for those who want to see the runs (unless your planning on recording it already)....? Let me know.
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^ Yes, Englishtown...

 

just got some bad news,"the car is on its way home on the back of a tow truck"< gf calls me up and tells me.
well she was comming up the highway when the car started to run ruff it was low on gas so she pulled into the gas station got some.after ppulling back out on the highway and driving for a mile or so the check engine light poped on and the car just died it will not restart.soon as the car gets here im gonna go pull the codes and see whats up.

lol if im lucky whatever was wrong with the iginition system finally broke and ill be able to get the car fixed in time for tom.

streetlethal if i go its gonna be on saturday for the domestic vs import street wars ( gota try to sneak threw tech without the firejacket lol)
but yeah it would deff be cool if ya could come out and get some video of the car.i only have 2 things to take vids with and they bothsuck( cellphone - shitty res and crappy sound) and my digi cam - halfway decent res but no sound of zoom)

 

god dam it of course she cranked the hell out of it trying to get it to restart and killed the batt,so whatever codes were in it arent anymore since she killed the battery

 

woot cars running again my oil feed line for the turbo wore threw one of the wires for the injector harness,repaired the wire and she started right back up.

 

Good deal. At first I thought that when the tank went dry, it might have picked something up, clogging up the system. Glad to hear that you got her running again....

LMAO @ sneaking through tech...

I have an old VHS recorder, and although it's a tad out-dated, it films well, zooms in from a very good distance, and records sound excellently. Two hour limit per battery, so I'll bring a back up (wanna get some other races on tape, too)...

 

Good stuff. Will be nice to see the turbo wonder in action.

 

im really excited to see how your times turn out.

 

It's like waiting for Christmas!

 

hey guys no times today,but i am going back to the track on wensday night to actually run

 

???What happened???

 

^^^ double that?????

 

had some iginition problems still,another member of the board was there,and it seems the ignition system is holding up now,so wensday im going back to make some passes.the only thing i got to mess around in the pits a lil bit threw 1/st part of second gear,and scare some of the import guys,

though it was really cool having alot of the import guys checking out the car and turbosetup

 

So did you make it to the track yesterday?

 

actually i didnt,we got 2-3 inches of snow yesterday so the track was closed

 

Guys, I'm making some passes tomorrow night over @ Englishtown (weather permitting), but Dave told me that he won't be able to run until next Wednesday though. If you would like, I could prolly meet up with Dave over the weekend, take some vids of his car messing around on the street (maybe even get some street races recorded). If anyone is wiling to host the footage for all to see, I'll gladly mail the results on film. Lemme know if your down Dave...

 

sunday would be good for that,maybe i could even get to the track and run one of the sportsman classes for the day,i can also host the vids

 

Hey Dave you have us here waiting, anticipating for that 3.1. to show us what it can do. With a stock engine too, thats very cool, if you do better then expected you won't go up on your turbo kit will you? Imagine if you rebuild your engine, that car will be even faster. Those engines are really durable I have a 92 3.1 and I havn't really had any engine problems besides the common things. Like someone before said, "this is better then waiting for Christmas"

 

AGREED. $ for the turbo kit is sitting on my dresser... waiting...

 

my good engine was a built engine,i blew it up though,so now the car has a stock motor init with my turbo kit bolted onto it

but we will see what happens on sunday,right now my gf is 8.5 months pregnant so my daughter is expected in the next 2-3 weeks.so its really hard to get out,if all goes well and my gf feels alright ill make it out on sunday

 

I was in his car last Saturday when e-town was hosting "street wars". It felt like a mid-to-low thirteen second car, with moderate boost and timing. Plus, we were in the back, and Dave couldn't really let loose on her the way that he really wanted to. If we get together this weekend, you guys will have more footage than you can handle....

 

car was at 7-9 psi and im pretty sure i bumped timming by 4* so 16* base timming

yeah just talked witht he gf sunday is looking pretty good,is the track open sunday?? i forgot to grab a schedual while i was at street wars lol

 

As much as I wanted to go tonight, it is still way too cold out, and I'm not freezing my @ss off for a couple of freaking runs lol. They should be open this Sunday, weather is supposed to be in the 50's (but we might get some rain though)....

 

Dave, Sunday is looking pretty good. My buddy with his '07 Mitsunishi Eclipse GT is willing to run you, either at the track, or on the street. Last time he ran, he was a low fourteen second car (with a terrible 60 foot), so it should be a pretty good match up, cuz he's since gotten much better at launching...

 

sounds good,but the only place racing thats going to take place is at the track,though if thats not gonna happen well mess around with the car on the streets a bit to get some video footage,just keep me posted as to whats going on

 

Definitely tomorrow. Your Camaro will more than likely rape his Eclipse, but it's cool though. It's all in fun. We're headed to Englishtown today to watch the 'vette doctors' run, hoping to get there by 1:00pm. Nothing like watching street legal vette's running in the EIGHTS!!!!!

 

Two thubs up .
Street, it's funny you say that because I will never forget when Dave told me "It runs like a raped ape." in referance to his car.

 

^ I remember the first time I saw his set-up last year, I was very very impressed with it. It should easily rape my buddies '07 Eclipse-GT....

Dave, today's going to be an excellent day for this. Just got back from getting the newspaper, and it's already pretty warm out....

 

i just woke up lol,ill give ya a call in a lil bit,i gota get outside and clean out the car a lil bit,gonna pull all the pluygs real fast and dbl check a few things.im prolly gonna get there around 10

 

hey man u need to turn ur cellphone on lol

 

LOL, it's on, but it's still charging. I'm trying to wake Tony's @ss up, but he's out like a freaking light. I might have to take a quick ride to his house to wake him up (he's over in Middlesex Township)....

If I can't get him up, I'll just buy a few streaming camera's over at CVS. What are they like ten minutes each? I'll buy like ten of them, then have them converted over to DVD for you to host after we're finished...

 

^ F*&^ that LMAO, I'm only buying one camera bro. I just got off of the phone with CVS, thirty dollars for twenty minutes worth of video, then another ten dollars to convert it to DVD. Don't get me wrong, it's not the money.... but forty freaking dollars for "twenty" minutes LMAO? I can get four hours worth with my old VHS camera, for the price of a blank tape, then convert it to DVD myself LOL....!

Anyways, twenty minutes should be more than enough, no...?

 

leaving in 5 mins

 

Good luck out there. Can't wait to see the results!

 

We will see what happens, I'm pretty sure you'll beat that eclipse, can't wait to see the video though, everyone around here laughs at my little 3.1 (they have vette's and a 1996 Impala SS) those cars are crazy, but then there are the little ricers around here and mustang gt's, I know I won't be about to beat many of them, but I want to see them laugh when I come through in a 3.1 v6 turbocharged third gen bird, the ricers might be in trouble but the SS and the higher cars of course not, but I'll be running with the big boys thats for sure. No one here on my block thinks that an intake can be put into the 3.1 and I just went to buy the materials to make a custom one, and I know for sure they think its impossible to put a turbo into this "weenie engine" thats what they say when I refer to my 3.1, messed up but I would never get rid of this car, the styling is great and with more power it could be a dream car once painted and rims and all that stuff. Well Dave, good luck and of course you will keep us informed to what happened. Hopefully by early next year I will have a turbocharged 3.1 as well like some people here on thirdgen.

 

well i found out a few things today,with all the system **** and other crap in the car its a wee bit over wieght just under 4,000 pounds,it shoudl wiegh in about 31-3200

anyways today i got in 2 runs one 1/4 mile run and one 1/8th run both with loads of tire spin

anyways videos will be posted in about 1-2 hours

and just to keep the suspence im not posting times ul have to watch the videos to find out

 

well its gonna take longer then i expected to get the vids up,but soon as i get the dvd from street lethal ill get them posted asap.
should be sometime tonight

 

LOL, don't worry Dave, I'm picking it up in about five minutes. They actually converted it to both DVD and VHS for me, and from what I'm told, the VHS has much better sound for some reason. Can you use either one.....?

Also, lemme know where is a good place to meet up with you later on. If possible, go with an MPEG format, as it's easier for me to see online lately, for some reason or another....

 

i have no way to get it from vhs to my computer,ill have to use it form dvd,i have software to play with the sound if need be,can u run it over to my place for me??? my gf is sick in bed sleeping,lol shed be pissed if i woke her up to run out and pick up the dvd

 

I just now went out to start the car, and seen that you tried calling (left the cell phone in the console lol). CVS closes at 10:00PM, but I know everyone is excited to get the footage online, so I'll go and pick it up as soon as I finish up with something....

 

BAAAAH! NOOOOO!

 

^ ????

 

heres a teaser vid till im done ripping the rest of this dvd
the track sucked i couldnt even load the converter on the line.so i ened up launching at 2,500 rpms instead fo 3,500+ not that it mattered anyway it spun the right rear tire a good 150+ ft down the track. if u listen u might be able to hear it bouncing off the revlimiter when i launched, down track u can finally hear the motor pull down when the tires hooked up

 

That's me dying in suspense! Hurry Dave!!!! Hehe.